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We consider the regulation of a monopoly facing consumers that may evade payments, an important issue in public … utilities. To maximize total surplus, the regulator sets the price and socially costly transfers, ensuring that the monopoly …
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This paper explores the effect of natural resource dependence on market concentration of imports. Using a new panel database for importing firms in developing and emerging market economies, the paper shows that higher natural resource dependence is associated with larger market concentration of...
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The paper empirically examines the implementation record of international financial regulation of the banking sector … record is particularly strong in countries where large banking sectors and big banks are both present, and where regulation …
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materialize. Financial regulation encouraging the decarbonization of the banks' balance sheets via tax-subsidy schemes …
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regulation on the probability of a crisis. We test this relationship by applying a Probit model of a non-linear specification to …: it rises as regulation stringency moves from low to medium levels and falls from medium to high levels. Countries located …
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The paper studies the impact of government budget constraint in a pure adverse selection problem of monopoly regulation …. The government maximizes total surplus but incurs some cost of public funds. An alternative to regulation is proposed in …-post with the private firms. This ex-post contracting set-up allows more flexibility than traditional regulation where …
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This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a cross-section of 120 countries and...
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We consider the regulation of a monopoly facing consumers that may evade payments, an important issue in public … utilities. To maximize total surplus, the regulator sets the price and socially costly transfers, ensuring that the monopoly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177626
We consider a model featuring a single-product natural monopoly, which faces evaders, i.e., individuals that may not … the price, the level of deterrence effort, and socially costly transfers to ensure the monopoly's participation. We obtain … to finance the firm's deficit. The regulated price is always below the monopoly price and, under sufficient conditions …
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competitive and monopolistic settings. We find that the presence of monopoly results in a higher tax rate than in the competitive … competition, she may prefer – ceteris paribus – a positive tax rate in the presence of monopoly. …
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